Tag Archives: rss

del.icio.us is a neat service for managing an online bookmark collection. With a little bit of Perl and a few CPAN modules, you can fetch your most recent bookmarks and include them as links on your homepage.

The sample script could be used in a cronjob and creates a file on you local server. It downloads my del.icio.us bookmark feed, chops it down to the ten most recent bookmarks and writes a unordered bullet list. You may need to adapt the template to your specific needs.

With the included modules you can do a lot of other interesting stuff. The XML::RSS module also includes functionality to create feeds and you could quite easily create aggregated feeds and other cool stuff with Perl and RSS-feeds.